News tagged 'NEA'

82 per cent physical progress achieved in NEA projects amid COVID-19 pandemic

Aug 4, 2020

Power utility was able to fully electrify 11 districts in last fiscal Kathmandu, August 3 Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) was able to achieve 82.29 per cent physical progress in its projects related to power generation, transmission and distribution in the last fiscal year 2019-20 and also achieved financial progress of 81.23 per cent. Of the Rs ...

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WHO acknowledges ‘evidence emerging’ of airborne spread of COVID-19

Jul 8, 2020

GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged “evidence emerging” of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus, after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people. “We have been talking about the possibility of airborne tra...

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Jeffrey Epstein friend Ghislaine Maxwell arrested on sex abuse charges

Jul 3, 2020

LONDON: Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and longtime associate of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested on Thursday on US charges of luring underage girls so that Epstein could sexually abuse them. The FBI arrest of the British socialite is the latest twist in the mystery of Epstein, who went from a high school math...

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1 man dead, 11 people wounded in Minneapolis shooting

Jun 21, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS: One man is dead and 11 people suffered non-life-threatening wounds in a shooting in Minneapolis, police there said early Sunday. Minneapolis police had first said 10 people had been shot with “various severity levels of injuries,” but revised their total upward in a tweet posted just after 3 am. The man died at the hospital...

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३ वर्षमा १२ सय मेगावाट बिजुली थपिँदै, जडित क्षमता २१ सय मेगावाट नाघ्ने

Mar 19, 2017

काठमाडौं । आगामी ३ वर्षमा नेपालमा थप १ हजार २ सय मेगावाट बिजुली उत्à�...

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एसएलसीताका बेलुका देशभरि लोडसेडिङ नगर्ने तयारीमा प्राधिकरण

अब उपभोक्ता आफैं मिटर रिडर !

Jan 27, 2017

नेपाल विद्युत प्राधिकरणले एकैपटक ठूलो संख्यामा कर्मचारी सरुवा �...

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Campaign to control power leakage intensifies in Saptari

Jan 24, 2017

The Nepal Electricity Authority Rajbiraj Distribution Centre in Saptari has disconnected  power supply to as many as 386 customers for not paying their tariff for the past six months in the district. Of them, power supply to153 customers was resumed after they cleared their dues, which were collectively worth Rs 6.6 million. According to Chi...

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Birgunj-Pathlaiya industrial corridor to be load-shedding free

Jan 24, 2017

The Birgunj-Pathliya industrial corridor and its surrounding areas will be declared load-shedding free within three weeks. Chief of the Transmission Line Project Laxmi Narayan Mukhiya said that the industrial corridor would be free of load-shedding after completion of the Raxaul-Parwanipur transmission line. He said that almost 90 per cent work on...

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12 NEA officials among 16 arrested for electricity theft

Jan 23, 2017

  Police have arrested 12 Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) officials, including a supervisor, and four others for their involvement in meter tampering, causing loss to the state-owned power utility and contributing to outages. Such meddling with electricity meters, officials believe, contributed to load-shedding, as a handful of people we...

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